LINQ CLI
Hey my name is Patrick, I’m a co-founder and CTO of Linq. We’re an API for sending and receiving iMessages (it does RCS/SMS too). It can do everything you can manually in iMessage (typing indicators, reactions, delivery emphasis, FindMy etc.) Our main customers are companies building conversational agents but we’re wanting to make it easier for developers to get started for free. To do that we built a CLI that lets you manage up to 20 contacts and gives you full API access for free. I’d love your feedback so we can keep improving it. Install via npm using: npm install -g @linqapp/cli Recently, I used the CLI to connect my Claude bot to WeWork & iMessage and haven’t had to use the WeWork app in a few weeks to book rooms. Github: https://github.com/linq-team/linq-cli Landing page: https://linqapp.com/cli Three constraints you should know about: 1. The free tier requires inbound-first (ie someone must text you before you text them) and has a limit of 20 contacts. This is to avoid spam. 2. The line is shared. This means a few other people will be using the same phone number as you, none of our paid production lines work this way. If you're testing enterprise grade our sandbox mirrors production, but has a 7 day time limit. The CLI is shared because there is a real infrastructure cost to us and we want to give this away for free. 3. We require an email to sign up. To avoid spam + our infrastructure cost. To be precise about "open source", it's the CLI. The whole client is in that repo, so you can read exactly what leaves your machine. The backend that delivers messages is closed.
Integuru
Hey HN! We’re Alan and Richard from Integuru (YC W24). We generate fast, reliable integrations for platforms lacking official APIs. About 2 years ago, we released the first agent that reverse-engineers network traffic to build integrations (https://github.com/Integuru-AI/Integuru). Since then, we’ve developed a new approach to reverse-engineer platforms’ source code directly. This solution also includes authentication support. Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/4l2L8fILC2g?si=nbWbDiFrWZIWRPM7. Many AI products need to integrate with web apps, but platforms often lack official APIs. So far, there are two main ways to integrate: browser automation and via network requests. We set out to build the original agent because we ourselves suffered from RPA’s latency, reliability, and throughput issues. The original agent solved many of the prior issues, but it wasn’t perfect either. The original agent did things the obvious way: (1) have a human do the action; (2) the agent observes the network requests and (3) recreates them. That got us far, but it only supported the path the user triggered. In production, we saw all the uncovered cases: different states, missing fields, permission differences, hidden validations, and request changes we could never catch in a single run. So we started building a new solution from the ground up. Our first step was to add agents that trigger many variations of the same action. To protect the platform’s data integrity, we added a gating layer that blocks outbound requests. This lets us observe the exact request structure, branching behavior, and platform logic without accidentally mutating the live system. But this still wasn’t enough. Some logic is hard to surface by execution alone. A lot of the business rules live in the frontend bundle. So we set out to analyze the true “answer sheet” for each platform: the source code. After experimenting, we got this working. We built a source-code analysis layer that deobfuscates and traces the code associated with each action. In practical terms, our system can handle most tricky edge cases without triggering all flows. Together, these two layers result in much better coverage of the production surface area. They support more edge cases, fail less often, and avoid a lot of the brittle one-off fixes that usually come later. Finally, we added auto-healing and API doc generation to improve reliability and the UX. We also offer a 24/7 on-call maintenance team for companies on the production plan. We now spend most of our time supporting vertical AI companies and helping them connect to their customer systems. We offer a free plan for integrating with one platform and charge for additional platforms, accounts, and overage API calls. For instance, we help healthcare AI companies connect to EHRs and payer portals, and logistics companies connect to TMSs and ERPs. Some companies are now running more than 1M monthly requests per platform. Across our production users, API calls complete in ~3 seconds at 99.9%+ success rate on average. We’re also building a library of APIs that users can use out of the box. That said, this version still has limitations we want to iterate on. Although we already tackle some anti-bot mechanisms, the agent still struggles to generate integrations with heavily anti-botted platforms. When the agent fails, our on-call team steps in to improve the agent or build the integration manually if the customer requests it. Also, the UX for generating an integration is still quite manual. Our next step is to build a CLI experience, so people and their agents can create, test, and use integrations in a much more flexible manner. This also prevents humans from having to wait for Integuru to finish its tasks. We want to one day allow developers and agents to integrate with all platforms instantly. Integuru is an ongoing effort. We’re passionate about automating integrations and would love your feedback!
Textile
Hi all, I'm excited to show off Textile, a desktop app I recently built. Textile can combine bits of text using various inputs, such as commands on your computer, the contents of your clipboard, and hard-coded strings that you provide. It lets you carefully build up and modify a dynamic string, step by step, until it's exactly how you need it. The saved steps can then be executed on demand, with the click of a button or using a keyboard shortcut. I built Textile because I was often constructing complicated, dynamic URLs from various sources that all existed on my computer. I got tired of manually switching between different apps, copying and pasting various chunks of text, and assembling them all together somewhere. I've also found Textile to be quite useful as a kind of repository for obscure bits of static text, such as ½ and other fraction characters, when I can't be bothered to remember their built-in keyboard combinations. I also built Textile because I wanted to learn Electron, although I expect there will be some gnashing of teeth about this here. :) I think desktop development is quite interesting, in part because it doesn't require me, the developer, to pay for an API server and database in the cloud. The app itself is both the UI and the "server," and the local drive is effectively the "database." I knows this trades away syncing with the cloud but, on the other hand, there's something nice about knowing that your files are on your drive and not on somebody else's server. I realize that something like Textile may already exist, and may have much more functionality but, again, I wanted to learn. I must say that multi-sequence keyboard shortcuts are hard, and there are cases that don't work right in Textile. I feel vulnerable admitting that my approach has much room for improvement! For what it's worth, I did not use an LLM to write any code for Textile (although I did ask many questions of an LLM, as an alternative to Googling). Textile is open source, free to use, and does not require sign up, email, phone, or other such barriers. Try it and let me know what you think! (Note: I don't have access to hardware running Windows or Linux, so Textile is only available for macOS at the moment.)
Constellation is an open-source Hasura-compatible GraphQL engine in Go
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Ano
Hi HN! I'm building Ano because I was tired of Slack's bloat and sluggishness, and never got any value out of their agent implementation. Ano is built local-first for speed (using Rocicorp Zero), focused on communication, and lets you use your own code agent as an assistant (Claude in my case, but it works with Codex too). I use the code agent to summarize anything unread (linking back to what matters), respond with context, and share data to and from connected tools (GitHub, Posthog, Attio, etc). Using your code agent for this might sound counter-intuitive, but to me it's the most powerful agent I use. It already has connections to my tools, and now it has access to Ano for communication too. The agent lives in an in-app shell, and Ano also has a CLI, so you can read and message into the chat from whatever terminal you're already using. Basically: Slack, minus the noise, with your code agent doing the work. Early days, but you can download the app and try it (macOS and iOS for now, more to come!). Would love your feedback. It's free, but you bring your own code agent account.
ssh late.sh
So first, what are we? A Clubhouse inside the terminal, where people can take a break, chill, chat with others all around the globe, listen to music, play some games, or paint on a live artboard :). ssh late.sh (or use the companion CLI) That's all. No passwords. No OAuth. No accounts. Your SSH key is your identity. Honestly, I've been a little nervous to post this. I wanted the Clubhouse to be something I'm genuinely proud of before sharing, and I think we are finally there :) There is so much here, so I'll really try to focus on the core: - full-scale chat, mentions, rooms, public and private, DMs, reactions, image previews, full-quality images, icon picker, anything you need - music, hop into the YouTube booth (WebView using wry) to listen to the community playlist, submit, vote, skip, or listen to 600+ server tracks divided into three categories (lofi, ambient, classical) - games, single and multiplayer, sudoku, minesweeper, tetris, snake, nonograms, poker, blackjack, chess, and much more. Leaderboards and badges! First truly server-wide game is in the PR! - live artboard, think r/place but in a TUI, draw, paint, or just enjoy. Daily and Monthly snapshots, check them out here: https://late.sh/gallery - shop, buy a new fully-dynamic bonsai to take care of, or maybe a new aquarium, fill it with ASCII fish, or what about a new pet to play with? Quests, daily and weekly + streaks to help you win more chips - news, rss/atom feeds, connect your own, share with others, auto-generated summaries with a nice ASCII thumbnail shared globally - directories, a dedicated space to showcase your projects, another to build your "work" profile, and it all rolls up into your live web profile: https://late.sh/profiles (someone has already been hired thx to it!), and another one for co-op tools, right now a canvas builder inside the TUI - and the NEWEST addition, VOICE chat :) without a browser! This has already grown into a team effort. Amazing people, amazing contributions, amazing vibe. Big ones in the pipeline: more BBS/full-scale server, real-time games :) Hop in, take a break and enjoy ;) Code: https://github.com/mpiorowski/late-sh Landing: https://late.sh Demo: https://late.sh/play License: FSL-1.1-MIT
ClearLogo
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Mercek
Hey HN I've been using ECS for a while now and found it annoying having to log into the console everytime I use Lens for Kubernetes but couldnt find an equivalent for ECS so i built one! The project is open source as well https://github.com/utibeabasi6/mercek
Intunedhq
Hey HN, we're Faisal and Ahmad from Intuned (https://intunedhq.com). We’re building a platform for building, deploying, and maintaining browser automations. Customers primarily use the Intuned AI agent to automate websites that don't expose APIs. Common use-cases include scraping data, pulling reports, and submitting forms. As the website changes, our agent also helps automatically heal the automation. On Intuned, browser automations are created by an AI agent and run as code. Our infra captures the context of every run, allowing our agent to debug and maintain the underlying code - to keep the automations working over time. This way, we’re able to offer the predictability, speed, and cost of code, without the painful parts of writing and maintaining it. Here’s a demo of building a scraper on Intuned: https://youtu.be/ruZP73bK4FU Here’s a demo of using AI to maintain a project: https://youtu.be/e4R4hLdHBro Backstory: we were accepted into YC for a completely different idea. During the batch, because of Faisal's background at UiPath, several batchmates asked us whether RPA tools could fill API gaps in their products by automating websites without APIs. When it was time to pivot, we went back to those founders to dig deeper. (RPA in this context is referring to using UI automation to do complete non-testing tasks) We discovered that the actual hard problem in browser automation is maintenance. Websites change, selectors break, and failures can be painful to reproduce and fix. So in early 2024, we decided to take a crack at this problem with a handful of customers. It needed a fair number of iterations before we landed on our current code-first approach. How it works: Intuned is infra + agent, deeply integrated. On the infrastructure side, Intuned is a managed runtime for browser automation code. Projects are usually Playwright-based TypeScript or Python. Users can write them directly in our online IDE, or hand the work off to the agent. Either way, once deployed, the platform runs each project in its own isolated machine and handles auth/session reuse, scheduling, batch execution, concurrency, observability, and the other plumbing around running browser code. On the agent side, it took us a few iterations to get to the current approach. Our initial attempts were rigid pipelines: collect requirements, inspect the site, generate code, then try to patch whatever broke. It looked reasonable on paper, but real websites are too messy for fixed paths. Late last year, we were planning to ship that version when stronger models landed and harnesses like Claude Code and Codex showed what a more open-ended coding agent could do. We built a prototype on the Claude Agent SDK, it felt much better than what we had, and we scrapped the release and decided to rebuild the agent. The rebuild came down to three pieces around the SDK: an execution environment for running long agent sessions reliably, a CLI that exposes the platform to the agent so it operates Intuned the way engineers do, and a custom plugin (skills + MCP) built around what we've learned building browser automations. The infra-agent integration is where the product gets more interesting. The runtime doesn't just run the automation; it captures the context needed to debug it when it fails: params, results, traces, logs. That enables features like Fix with AI, where you can open a failed run and have the agent investigate and prepare a fix. The same integration powers a feature called self-healing. For configured projects, the platform detects failures, starts an agent session with the relevant context, and either proposes a fix for review or deploys it automatically. Demo: https://youtu.be/IVHIXw0lYMs We recently also packaged the infra and agent as an API called Web Task API, here is a demo: https://youtu.be/1olRn3l95vw We strongly believe that browser automations can and should be faster, cheaper and more predictable. Check us out at https://app.intuned.io/, we have a free tier with trial credits for your first few automations. Excited to hear your thoughts, questions, and feedback!
Homebrew 6.0.0
Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 6.0.0. The most significant changes since 5.1.0 are a new tap trust security mechanism, the new faster, smaller, default internal Homebrew JSON API, sandboxing on Linux, better defaults informed by our user survey, many brew bundle improvements, improved performance and initial support for macOS 27 (Golden Gate). Happy to discuss any questions here!
I built 80 mini-games using Fable before it was shut down
Dear Hacker News, I'm kindly asking for your participation in the open beta for my AI-managed mini-games website. Thank you in advance! For a limited time window, I'm setting the all-free feature flag to true. I hope you have a lot of fun exploring the AI's sense for games! Here and there, I tweaked it to help with visual consistency. I would be deeply grateful if you opted into analytics. $2,300 in API tokens... Cheers!
Garden of Flowers
Hey all, I made this. The archive started with my 2015 BA thesis on Amiga ASCII art when I was curious about the history of ASCII art but found very little on text art that came before it. The historical precursors are often attributed to typewriter art and shaped/visual poetry, but I think letterpress is overlooked. So, I got slightly obsessed and started a personal database of pictures built entirely from metal type, ornaments, and rule, some going back to the 1600s. After eight years, I've managed to find ~2500 images. My friend Adel Faure built the website so it's now browseable by anyone! I would like to note that most images are from public digital collections (Internet Archive, national libraries, etc.) and displayed without permission (for educational purposes). I've tried to source every image, but check the original source and its license before reusing anything. I'd be happy to take down or correct anything. It's also incomplete and surely has errors and misattributions. Corrections to anything are very welcome. If anyone has leads on works I haven't catalogued, I'd love to hear them! The practice and pictures are scattered across languages and keywords (type picture, typosignet, typotectur, Bildsatz, stigmatypie, stunt typography...), so things hide in odd corners of archives. If you've seen something like this, please point me at it. There's also a longer essay on how it began: https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/?essay